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Features more than 90 beautiful color and 120 black and white period illustrations.
Part fairy tale, part crime novel, part rags to riches Hollywood myth, I Am Sophie Tucker tells the outrageous story of one of showbiz’s biggest personalities.
From 1906 through the beginning of television, Sophie Tucker and her bawdy, brash, and risqué songs paved the way for performers such as West, Monroe, Midler, Cher, Madonna, and Gaga.
“Sophie was like the Forrest Gump of the first half of the 1900s,” says co-author Susan Ecker. “She was close friends with seven presidents, King George VI, young Queen Elizabeth, Chaplin, J. Edgar, Capone, Garland, Jerry Lewis, Sinatra and every other notable of her era.”
Tucker tried to get her story published for nine years, without success. Undaunted, Sophie hired half a dozen ghostwriters, but she still had no takers for her no holds barred autobiography. Eventually, Doubleday published a sanitized version in 1945.
“After immersing ourselves in Sophie’s papers and surviving friends,” says co-author Lloyd Ecker, “this initial volume is what should have been the actual autobiography of Tucker.”
Though she obsessively documented her life, Sophie loved to exaggerate for dramatic effect. Over the years, she told multiple versions of each important event. At the end, not even Sophie knew the difference between truth and tall tale.
“This volume is 85% fact,” Lloyd explains. “The other 15% …who knows?”
I Am Sophie Tucker puts back all of the delicious bits nixed by Doubleday’s lawyers and throws in other Tucker show business dirt, intrigue, arrests, romance, murder, gangsters, and scandals. Now you can read it for yourself.
- Sales Rank: #1298819 in Books
- Published on: 2014-11-04
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.10" h x 1.30" w x 6.30" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 416 pages
Review
“… a sizzling page-turner, a “must have” for any showbiz junkie who can’t wait to get their mitts on the Last of the Red Hot Mamas.” — Jewish Scene Magazine
“I’d recommend this book for anyone who enjoys a good laugh, appreciates a risqué double entendre, and would like to gain insight into the inner workings of burlesque and vaudeville.” — Donald H. Harrison, San Diego Jewish World
“… captures Tucker’s real life adventures that were too hot to handle in her previous autobiography.” — Kosheroc Magazine
“Susan and Lloyd Ecker have done a masterful research job, and an equally fine one of fictionalizing the life of this raucous, rambunctious, self-assured, diligent, poker-playing, talented, generous, brash and brassy broad. Lending the project a helping hand, the Last of the Red-hot Mamas did a pretty good job of reinventing and fictionalizing herself.” — Ithaca Magazine
“This fictional memoir is very readable, giving what feels like a clear idea of what Sophie’s life was like, and what she must have been thinking during her most memorable experiences. The tone of the writing is chipper and makes use of 1920s-era slang as well as Yiddish words and phrases.” — Historical Novel Society
About the Author
In 1973, Ithaca College students Susan Denner and Lloyd Ecker went on their first date to see an up-and-coming new singer named Bette Midler. Over the course of the evening, the couple fell in love with the Divine Miss M., her Sophie Tucker jokes, and each other.
Over the last forty years, the Eckers got married and had three children, and developed Babytobee. The sale of that business in 2006 allowed Sue and Lloyd to pursue their passion for bringing Sophie Tucker’s life to the page, stage, and screen.
With this book, the first in a trilogy about Sophie’s life, and a documentary already under their belts, the Eckers now intend to take Sophie's story to Broadway with a musical, to Hollywood with a film version of that musical, and to the small screen in a long running television drama based on her unbelievable sixty-year showbiz career.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
First book in a fictionalized memoir trilogy about Sophie Tucker.
By Judy Lesley
I have heard general information about Sophie Tucker as long as I can remember, but I realized when I saw this book was available that I didn't really know anything at all about her. This was my opportunity to find out what Tucker was really like back during the early 1900s when entertaining had to be an inner calling because it was so difficult to get ahead in the industry.
These authors have taken information from a biography published in 1945 by Doubleday and augmented it with further facts, photographs, and memorabilia they discovered in their research of the life of Sophie Tucker. The 1945 biography was a scrubbed clean version which probably doesn't represent the subject person very well. I'm sure this fictional memoir comes closer to showing what Sophie Tucker herself and the times she climbed the ladder to be a superstar in the entertainment industry were really like. If you have any interest in Sophie Tucker, this endeavor will supply you with all the who's and what's that got her moving to stardom. Unfortunately this isn't the complete story of Sophie Tucker since it is the first book of a proposed trilogy. The authors also plan a Sophie Tucker Broadway musical, a movie musical, and a television show as well as the documentary film they have already made.
For me, this first segment of the fictional memoir has been enough to satisfy my curiosity about Sophie Tucker.
I received an ARC of this volume through NetGalley.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Not bad, not good, but not bad.
By Nohosky
The authors, a husband and wife who discovered Sophie Tucker when they went to Bette Midler concert in the early 70's, are retired with a lot of time on their hands. So much time, that they utilized Sophie Tucker's personal scrapbooks (kept over a 50 year show business career) and used them as the basis for this fictionalized biography of the great Miss Tucker. It is surprising how little time they spend on her career and how much more time they give to her backstory, particularly that of her parents. While some of it is interesting, they are not skilled enough writers to give the mountain of bio material any life. The pictures are gorgeous however, and there are some fun nuggets here and there, but really, the autobiography that Sophie wrote in the 1940's (and mentioned with much derision in this book) was much more entertaining and certainly had more information about Sophie's career, which is after all, the best reason to read a book about this long forgotten but much loved entertainer.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Interesting, weirdly fictional but based on true events, recommended for Tucker fans
By A. Allen
Review based on ARC.
Sophie Tucker was undoubtably a fascinating person. She seemed to know anyone who was anyone... from Al Pacino to Arthur Conan Doyle to ... well, herself! And this fictional memoir seemed intriguing. I didn't know much about Tucker going into it -- more a recognition of the name than anything else. But I thought it sounded intriguing... a murder mystery, an insider's look at early Hollywood (or, at least, earlier...), the world of Vaudeville.... ok, sign me up!
And... it delivered. to some degree. So, fictional memoir. What was I expecting? I don't know, something more akin to Devil in the White City, I guess... a sort of novelization of real events. An adding of thoughts and emotions -- a researcher's best guess -- and maybe that's what this was. But it seemed a lot more fictional than that. It *felt* like someone was creating a whole persona for a real person. Which just felt weird. It felt like someone had decided THIS must be Sophie Tucker's *real* personality -- her behind-the-scenes personality. And.... it was unsettling to me.
It felt surface. It felt false. It felt over-simplified. Like, rather two-dimensional. And, I understand the authors did an inordinate amount of research, and had scrapbooks and many items of Sophie's own words to pull from... so perhaps Sophie was really just a two-dimensional person? Seems far-fetched. Much more far-fetched than the so-called "life and times of Sophie Tucker."
And that was my other complaint. Eyebrow-raising, inward gasping, behind-the-scenes reveals? meh. I get that this was a long time ago, and our standards are different now... but it still felt like this fictional character was going from "hey hey, listen to this CRaaaaay-zee story about me!" to yet another and another... nothing felt organic or ... well, real.
Buuut.... It was Interesting. It was somewhat satisfying to read about that time from a so-called insider's perspective. It was ok. I didn't love Sophie; I didn't hate her. I didn't really feel that particularly strongly about anyone except for her first husband.
As for the others... were they husbands? It felt like a lot was left out. How did she meet her 3rd husband? What happened? How did they break? What about the 2nd .... how did that become, er, formal? (did I just miss that altogether?) So yeah, it was the organization. The organization needed work. And as a result, the story suffered.
But it was ok. And if you're really interested in Sophie Tucker's life, from an arguably inside perspective... check it out. The memoir is pretty consistent from beginning to end, so if you don't like the first few chapters, then you won't like it. If you do, you will.
Overall, three of five stars.
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